Advertising device.



J. W. PHELPS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9, 1908.

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JAMES WILEY PHELPS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

AD VERTISING DEVICE Application filed March 9, 1908.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Serial No. 420,002.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES WILEY PnnLPs, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Detroit, in the county of I/Vayne and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAdvertising Devices, 'ofwhich the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates generally to an advertising medium especiallydesigned for use in connection with gas or electricity, and it consistsof a member preferably though not necessarily of transparent ortranslucent material on which advertising matter may be placed arrangedin operative relation to the illuminant, and further consists inproviding a rocking connection for the member permitting the relativepositions of the member and illuminant to be varied, whereby theadvertising matter may be brought into the proper position for reading.

The invention further consists in the peculiar arrangement andcombination of the various parts, and in certain details of construction as will be more fully hereinater set forth.

In the drawings,-Fignre 1 is a perspective view of my improvedadvertising device as applied to an electric light fixture; Fig. 2 is adetached plan view of the clamp; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of theclamp, showing its application to the fixture.

In the drawings thus briefly described, A

represents a fixture either for gas or electric light, and in thisinstance the illuminant is in the form of electricity, B representingthe usual electric light bulb and C a socket portion.

, D represents the member upon which the advertising matter is adaptedto be placed, preferably though not necessarily a circular glass plate,having apertures a formed in its periphery. This is supported inoperative relation to the light by means of a suitable frame E and aclamp F, the connection between the frame and clamp being such as topermit the member D to be adjusted in relation to the illuminant, eitherup or down as may be desired, for the purpose of bringing theadvertising matter that appears thereon in proper position to be seen orread.

The frame E is preferably of wire, having inwardly-extending loop-shapedarms I), and

at its outer end single arm portions or members c that engage theapertures a in the marginal portion of the member D.

The clamp may be of any suitable construction. I have here shown thesame as a split ring, the clamping being effected by means of a screw(Z. The ring is provided with laterally-extending arms or portions 6,apertured, as at f, to receive the loop-shaped arms I).

The construction of advertising device as set forth is particularlyserviceable for fixtures arranged on the walls of the building. As theheight of the fixture varies from the floor, a change in the relativepositions of the advertisement and the illuminant is necessary, and thisis effected as previously set forth through the rocking connection between the parts. To vary the position of the plate D in relation to thebulb it is merely required to draw the arm portions of the frame throughthe clamp arms, thereby raising or lowering the plate or advertisingmedium, the weight of the plate holding the parts in the adjustedposition.

It will be obvious from the description of the invention that theadvertising device is as applicable to gas as to electric lightfixtures, and further that the member or surface on which theadvertisement appears may be of any desired material, but preferablytranslucent or trai'isparent.

What I claim as my invention is,

1. In an advertising device, the combination with an electric lightfixture, of oppositely apertured members associated therewith, atransparent plate, and a support having parallel loop-shaped armspassing through the apertured member and having adjustable and lockingconnections therewith.

In an advertising device, the combination with a light fixture, of aclamp connected thereto, oppositely disposed apertured members upon theclamp, a member adapted to bear advertising matter, and a supportingframe for said member having curved portions or sections extendingthrough the apertures of the clamp.

3. In an advertising device, the combination with an electric lightfixture, of a clamp detachably connected thereto, oppositely disposedapertured members upon the clamp, a member adapted to bear advertisingmatter thereon, and means for supporting said member having anadjustable engagement with the said apertures.

4. In an advertising device, the combination with a light fixture, of aclamp connected thereto, a member adapted to bear advertising matter,and a supporting frame for said member adjustable in relation to saidclamp and having connections therewith adapted to automatically lock thesupporting frame in its different positions of adjustment.

5. In an advertising device, the combination with a light fixture, of aclamp detachably connected thereto having apertures therein, atransparent member, and a supporting frame for said member having armspassing through the apertures and adjustable in relation to the fixture,the connection between said frame and fixture being adapted toautomatically lock the former in its different positions of adjustment.

6. In an advertising device, the combination with a light fixture, of aclamp connected thereto, an illuminant, a transparent member, and asupporting frame for said transparent member adjustable in a planetransverse to the longitudinal axis of said illuminant.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES l/VILEY PHELPS.

Vitnesses:

NELLIE KINsELLA, JAMEs P. BARRY.

